Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi
$39.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, v ...Show more
Minor Feelings - A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition by Cathy Park Hong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by award-winning poet Cathy Park Hong.
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison 'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of the most important writing about what it is to ...Show more
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
$15.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a ...Show more
Long Live Latin (Viva il Latino): The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius analysed the material world and Caesar interrogated how we view reality through the lens of reason - but what does Latin offer us today?Often seen as the bulky relic of school curricula long forgotten, Latin seems to have lost its punch in ...Show more
Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World by Jess Scully
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What ...Show more
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world. Harris' search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of ou ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive."-- ...Show more
Analogia by Dyson, George
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control or understand, who holds the future?George Dyson plots a thrilling and unexpected course through 300 years of history and science to reveal the hidden connections that underpin the digital transformation of the current age, ending ...Show more
The End of Epidemics: How to Stop Viruses and Save Humanity Now by Dr Jonathan D. Quick; with Fryer, Bronwyn
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the world — and revealed how unprepared we are for the next outbreak of an infectious disease. Somewhere in nature, a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey, or pig, preparing to jump to a human being. This not-yet-detected ger ...Show more
The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution ...Show more